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#ThinkAboutItThursday – Do Schools Focus Too Much On Grades?

Today’s Topic: Has education become more about temporary results and grades than long-term success and knowledge? In one word, yes. Grades have always been the way to decide whether a child “got” a concept and it’s only gotten worse over the last few years. Teachers are being graded. Schools are being graded. If school’s don’t […]

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#ThinkAboutItThursday : Why So Serious?

Today’s Topic: What, if anything, is too serious to be joked about? Humor is a great tool in the right hands. As for topics that are too serious, I can’t think of one. Obviously you must take the audience into account before telling the joke but all topics are up for grabs so to speak […]

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Our Boys Reactions To The Teen Choice Awards

Little T, age 9, and Drama King, age 7, sat through the Teen Choice Award for this first time this year. Tim and I cover award shows over at Your Celeb Source so they boys have seen their fair share of these types of shows. Typically the boys venture in and out of the office […]

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Five Uses for Wholly Guacamole & Salsa

Our family loves guacamole and salsa. We use it like most people use ketchup and mustard. Our favorite will always be our own freshly made version that we’ve shared in the past. Although sometimes homemade is simply not an option especially when produce is out of season. So what is a person do to?

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Think About It! – Children, Bedrooms & Sharing

Growing up, I had my own room. My own space for my stuff. A place my pesky little brother wasn’t allowed. A place where I could hide away from it all. My boys, however, have always shared a room. They are 14 months apart and we lived in a two bedroom apartment for the first […]

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Wal-Mart : Good Or Evil?

We go to Wal-Mart. It is not our favorite store but we occasionally shop there. We prefer Target over Wal-Mart as far as big box stores go as most of the generics Target sells work very well while hardly any of the generic items are Wal-Mart are useable.